All HSJ Local top news articles – Page 174
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NewsMonitor threatens collective punishment for Greater Manchester over cancer
Monitor has threatened to downgrade the governance ratings of nine foundation trusts in Greater Manchester if waiting times at the Christie Foundation Trust do not improve in the next six months.
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Pathfinder complains over London's use of McKinsey
COMMERCIAL: London’s strategic health authority has received a complaint from a GP commissioning group about the use of consultancy firm McKinsey.
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Community services transfer held up by legal threat
STRUCTURE: The transfer of community services in Gloucestershire to a social enterprise is expected to be delayed following a legal challenge.
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Private company accuses foundation trust of 'predatory pricing'
COMMERCIAL: A private company has brought a case to the Co-operation and Competition Panel accusing York Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust of “predatory pricing”.
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New chief executive appointed to key London trust
WORKFORCE: A new chief executive has been appointed to a large non-foundation trust in London.
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HSJ LocalBirmingham Women's loses chair and chief exec
WORKFORCE: The chief executive and acting chair of Birmingham Women’s Hospital Foundation Trust have left within a week of each other.
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HSJ LocalManchester fires starting gun on major reconfiguration
STRUCTURE: Primary care trusts across greater Manchester have agreed to pool resources worth tens of millions of pounds a year to fund a major reconfiguration of the city’s planned and emergency hospital services.
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Super merger plans let down by £116m PFI shortfall
STRUCTURE: A planned merger that would create England’s largest NHS trust would require £116m of support in its first year.
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Mid Staffs seeks bailout to avert cash crisis
FINANCE: Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has sunk so much money into resolving its care quality failures it will run out of cash by December unless it secures a bailout.
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Kent PCT sends patient data CD to the tip
PERFORMANCE: NHS Eastern and Coastal Kent accidentally sent a CD containing the personal details of 1.6 million patients to a landfill site in March.
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HSJ LocalManchester cancer waits see 'little improvement' since tsar's report
PERFORMANCE: A report for Greater Manchester commissioners has found “little sustained improvement” in the area’s poor cancer waiting times, despite the intervention in February of the government’s cancer tsar.
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HSJ LocalChase Farm to remain open but loses A&E unit
STRUCTURE: The health secretary has rubber stamped plans to downgrade Chase Farm Hospital’s emergency department and take forward a possible merger with North Middlesex University Hospital Trust.
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Morecambe maternity services rapped by regulator
PERFORMANCE: Divisions between senior medical staff contributed to maternity services at University Hospitals Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust failing to meet essential safety standards, the Care Quality Commission has warned.
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London trust wide of the mark on waiting times
PERFORMANCE: More than half of patients seen at North Middlesex University Hospital Trust in June had waited more than 18 weeks for treatment.
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FT plans 20 per cent growth in private patient income
FINANCE: The Royal Marsden Foundation Trust, Britain’s biggest specialist cancer trust, is planning to increase its private patient income by 20 per cent this year.
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FT predicting significant fall in MoD income
FINANCE: The main provider of acute healthcare for the armed forces is predicting a significant fall in Ministry of Defence income as the UK scales back its deployment in Afghanistan.
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Legionnaires' death sparks hospital investigation
PERFORMANCE: A multi-agency investigation will be carried out into an Essex hospital after a patient with Legionnaires’ disease died.
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US executive flies in to fix LAS software
PERFORMANCE: The vice president of the US firm providing new software for London Ambulance Service has flown in to lead the second attempt to make it live amid fears it will not be in place before the Olympics.
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HSJ LocalTrust wins backing to vacate £3.6m PFI unit
Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust has won backing for its controversial plan to vacate the £3.6m-a-year PFI building it occupies in the grounds of Manchester Royal Infirmary.
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Channel islands shift cardiac business from London specialist hospital to Southampton
COMMERCIAL: The health authorities of Guernsey and Alderney are moving roughly £1.3m of specialist treatment from a London teaching hospital to a trust on the south coast.